Journalist Quotes

He that is rich is wise.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

But I think it's important that things endure.